not really, you just gotta loo a bit harder
that said, the actual gameplay in Crysis 2 itself is FAR more polished. No super annoying Chopper with UV goggles spam, no "lol I can take 3 times as much damage as you" enemy nanosuits, everything you do actually feels realistic, where in Crysis half of the tins you do seem wrong or broken in some way, even if only by a tiny bit
If you think that crysis 2 is better than crysis 1, you werent playing the first one correctly.
eh, I've done everything to going through entire missions using a frying pan as my only weapon to going through levels on hardest difficulty without raising the alarm and killing everyone (only allowing myself to kill them by picking up one enemy and strength throwing them at another)
sure, you can DO a lot of things, but in the end Crysis is kinda one big hallway with a bunch of rough game mechanics thrown in, while Crysis 2 is 2-5 smaller hallways (each level has multiple paths instead of just one big one, although a few places in Crysis were kinda also like this) with smooth gameplay and no annoying enemies (looking at you, helo whenever I don't got a rocket launcher, sniper rifle or heavy MG)